A former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica and the current general counsel at The Home Depot will address graduates Saturday at
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and IU Maurer School of Law, respectively.

National data released by the American Bar Association shows that the Class of 2014 has a slightly larger percentage of its
graduates employed in long-term, full-time positions that require bar passage as compared with the Class of 2013.

One of the educational challenges facing those of us in higher education (not just law) is teaching writing. The entry of
what is often referred to as the millennial generation into higher education has shown a marked decrease in prior opportunities
to write, to be critiqued, and, sadly, even to have been instructed in the basics of grammar, sentence structure and syntax.

At public law schools, the average tuition and fees across the country for in-state residents skyrocketed 123 percent between
2003 and 2013. Private law schools were marginally better, logging an increase of 64 percent, according to a 2014 analysis
by Robert Kuehn, professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.

Lyon remains a passionate, unwavering opponent of capital punishment. Her career path has turned from the courtroom to education.
The dean of Valparaiso University Law School maintains a strong connection to death penalty work.

A DePaul University College of Law professor, well-known as a scholar in the areas of employment and labor law and voting
rights, will be the featured speaker at Valparaiso University Law School’s Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Thursday.

When she became pen pals with an inmate on Louisiana’s death row, Sister Helen Prejean said she did not know much about
the law or the U.S. Constitution. She was not aware of constitutional protections or how the Supreme Court of the United States
was interpreting them.

The move by two Indiana law schools to follow a national trend and offer master’s degrees to non-lawyers has many practicing
lawyers asking where the graduates of these programs will fit into the legal profession.

Outside academic institutions, law reviews are seen in a different, sometimes less flattering, light. The common complaints
about publications include concerns that students are editing the articles, getting a piece published can take months, and
the end product has little relevance to the practicing bar.